Making memories

I'm writing this from a small, rented apartment in Ferrara, Italy. My heart is filled with joy as I look back on the past week and a half. From my home in the Netherlands, I have driven the song clichés: high over mountains, deep into valleys, through sunshine on a rainy day. With each new town and city that I passed, I learned a little about its history, I saw castles that looked formidable from below and offered a whole new world perspective from high. I have climbed, I have descended, I have walked and walked and walked, sometimes more than 30km in a day. My feet and my legs ached but my warm soul, numbed the pain. I have been to places where nobody else can be seen for miles and places where it is hard to see past the mass of people to the world beyond. I have tasted the delicacies made with loving hands by locals. I've tasted the less than delicate packaged goods from supermarkets and cheap eateries too. Through all of this, through the winding roads of the Swiss, Austrian, Liechtenstein and Italian Alps, through the fairy-tale towns that inspired Brothers Grimm, through every moment of something new, I have lived. The memory of this experience may fade but the feelings it evoked will last forever.

Every day is history

It wouldn't be wrong to say that the week gone by was my small moment of my history. Every day, something is happening that creates our own small part of history and every day, events take place that are significant enough for many of us to want to know more. With so much going on and so much already said and done, how do you choose which history to display in a history museum? When you've made that decision, how to you broach the subject area with the truth and care it needs? What part do stories have to play in getting the message of history across?

Thankfully, I don't need to answer these questions. Instead, I asked the Director of the Canadian History Museum, Dean Oliver to answer them. His answers to the above, his tales of fairies and his kind, humble manner make this episode well-worth a listen. Just click on the image below:

A gift

History often repeats itself but seemingly in different ways, with different associations and different results tied to it. I'm going to learn from history and repeat myself a little here. This story has been told in text form on a previous edition but I decided to add my voice to the words for "A Tale of Two Series" and I thought you might like to see my approach. I offer this as a gift in the way that I was gifted something special as a child.

Share your history

Story is in the word for a reason. History is the tale of a time gone by so make sure that you keep sharing stories and letting the world understand a part of your history. With every story you tell, you will fill your readers and listeners with emotions that connect you on a deeper level so what are you waiting for? Go out into the world and share!

We'll be back next week

If you can't wait until then, you can find more from Puck Creations by checking out?King Puck's Wisdom?and you can listen to every podcast released so far by visiting our?Puck Podcast?page. See you soon.